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"If it hasn't been done, then it's worth doing."
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Agile + New Products + Milestones = Problems
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"Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done." When you are building a new product in your startup or company, you need to have a launch date... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2017 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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The fatal flaw in machine learning AI
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Machine learning is a great thing. The fatal flaw is our expectations of their capabilities exceed the ability of these systems as designed. Especially when they interact with people. Take the news feed on LinkedIn or Facebook for instance. Their... Continue reading
Posted Jul 29, 2017 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Centurylink not connecting with Comcast 800 numbers
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A couple of days ago I got my latest Comcast bill and noticed it went up. So I called the 800 number. Got a fast busy. Tried the next morning and same thing. Tweeted Comcast Care and they said everything... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2016 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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My 7" 40GB $62 Traveling Tablet: Amazon Fire
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On a trip to Indianapolis, I left my iPad on the plane. Tracking it did no good. I was not happy. For Christmas this year I got the cheapo Fire with a wimpy 8GB of storage. For $12 I added... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2016 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Marketing: Less Stalking, More Talking
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Many businesses have decided the best way to sell is by stalking people across the Internet and inserting ads. Many people find this very disturbing (hence the rise of ad blockers like Ghostery and Privacy Badger.) Other businesses build relationships... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2016 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Saving Money with High Deductible Insurance: Drugs and Imaging
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I have a high deductible healthcare plan and found out I needed an MRI earlier this year for a ski injury. Using the Regence Blue Cross / Shield healthsparq.com tool, the $1,011 from IHC looked OK. That's where I got... Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2015 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Preparing for a Knee Replacement: A Checklist for the Family
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You get a phone call from Mom; "Hi honey, I'm getting my knee replaced in 4 weeks, can you help me?". Don't panic. We went through this and here are some tips to help you through this (disclaimer: this is... Continue reading
Posted Jul 18, 2015 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Business Case for FHIR and Argonaut: Patient Directed Post Acute Care
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FHIR's purpose is an ambitious effort that defined healthcare standards and API's to accelerate development of useful web-like applications from Electronic Health Records (EHR). Project Argonaut is a private sector based initiative to build useful applications to drive adoption. Applications... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2015 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Big Data + Analytics = A Very Large Junkyard
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Have a problem, Big Data will solve it. The problem still is in data architecture and appropriate analytics. And most importantly, understanding the business reason for this Big Data (solve a problem, discover new insights, etc.) Today's tools are cheap... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Protecting against data breaches in your startup company: Apple + Box
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Data security can be the furthest from your mind when doing your startup company. You have a short runway to get a product out the door and get happy customers. Security? Spending scarce resources on it? I am helping a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Protecting yourself from hacked credit card readers: Google Wallet & Apple Pay
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First TJX with 90 million accounts stolen, then Target with 40 million accounts stolen and now Home Depot with 56 million accounts stolen. I found it interesting that Target was hacked through a flaw in Microsoft Active Directoy. No news... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Why Are You Special?
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And by you, I mean your customers. How do they view you? Why did they buy and will they buy again? This is the first question I try to understand whenever I start a new project (or talk to a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Designing for Privacy & Security : All your base are belong to us
Last week I had a lively discussion with an education expert talking about privacy and security. This resulted after interpretations of FERPA resulted in universities selling student directories / email addresses to spammers third party marketing organizations. (just because they... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Living in the HealthCare IT Bubble
Reality is a harsh mistress. With the advances in Electronic Health Records, patient portals and records transport ala Direct X.509, my peers and I see a very bright future for healthcare in the U.S. and talk about all the great... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Changing the Language of Healthcare from Cost to Outcomes and Productivity
The US healthcare system has been warped by reimbursements for care. In Sharin's piece "The End of Hospital Cost Shifting", he talks about the impact on hospitals of the Medicare cutting reimbursements to hospitals based on work done by Austin... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2014 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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It's time to retire CPT® in health care
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CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) is a medical billing coding system created by the American Medical Association (AMA) with the sole purpose of charging insurance companies for health care services and putting royalty money in the AMA's pocket. It's an artifact... Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Encyrption is easy: Key management is hard
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Encryption basically has two use cases: 1. Moving information from point A to point B and not letting anyone else be able to see it during transit. 2. Making sure that when the information is at rest (data, email, etc.)... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Saving Healthcare in the US: Focus on Efficiency, Efficacy and Motivation
I won't bore you with the statistics on how the US spends more and gets less than any other industrial nation in the world and consumed about 17.9 percent of GDP last year. Instead I want to focus on the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 15, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Script Relief aka National Prescription Savings Network aka RX Relief aka The HealthCare Alliance
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And it is owned and run by Michael R Loeb (nice 18,000 sq ft house) of Loeb Enterprises. Will you save money vs insurance on prescriptions? Maybe. Will your name and prescription data be sold to the pharmaceutical companies. Absolutely. Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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HealthIT 2.0: Time for the Hospitalist?
Imagine taking care of 15 patients a day. And you've never met them before. And coordinating care among three shifts of nurses, labs and specialists. That is the plight of the hospitalist. HealthIT 1.0 has failed them. Patient histories from... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Why I started programming
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A friend of mine asked me this week about how I started out as a developer. Did I go to school for it? The short answer is no. I taught myself initially because it helped me do my job better.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Jump Starting to Double your Sales in a Tech Company
Twice this year I've talked to two companies who have the same challenge: After a decade of getting to $20-$50M in sales , senior management has been tasked by the board to "GET BIG NOW". I have noticed the same... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Patient Portals and the Identity Crisis
Meaningful use stage II is requiring a certain percentage of patients to be able to view their patient health information. At HIMSS in New Orleans there was a lot of conversation about this. And many vendors talking about their solutions.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Embedding a PowerPoint or Keynote Slide Deck Presentation in a website
A pdf just doesn't cut it in today's websites. Try looking at them on your smartphone. But how do you handle those slide decks? I've seen plugins etc. but that was just too much work. Turns out Keynote on Mac... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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Lower Back Injury: Physical Therapy not Surgery or X-Rays or MRI
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Just before Thanksgiving I was floored by sciatica. I started taking a lot of ibuprofen to reduce the inflammation. By Friday I was able to get off the floor and go see the doctor who prescribed prednisone to further calm... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at Fryer's Blog in the Mountains
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